Usually, whenever somebody wants to start building an HTTP API for their website, they pretty much exclusively use REST as the go-to architectural style. They prefer REST to alternative approaches such as RPC and GraphQL.
REST works well for most cases, especially if you build a monolithic application that does…
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a popular tool used in deep learning. In an artificial neural network, data is passed through a data structure designed as a multi-layered series of connected nodes. This data structure is loosely based on the structure of an animal's nervous system. …
A couple of years ago, the website Quora.com — originally a question-answering website — came out with another feature called Spaces. Quora Spaces are collaborative blogs, similar to Reddit subreddits. On Spaces, writers can ask and answer questions, as well as make short or long blog-style posts. They can also…
Seven hundred miles from Athens, Greece, or about the distance from New York to Chicago, is Lebanon — a country that is known for its cosmopolitanism, cuisine, nightlife, natural beauty, and Phoenician heritage. Its cedars are mentioned dozens of times in the Bible, which says the wood was used to…
Some months ago, I read the most absurd article in the Daily Mail. It was about a group of people who made a write-up suggesting that Western-style sheet music notation should be abolished because of its association with colonialism, as part of how Oxford University might overhaul its music curriculum.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a commonly used tool in deep learning. In this earlier tutorial, you can learn what they are, learn their basic structure, and code a simple neural network with only one neuron. When you design your own neural networks, there are a number of considerations to…
Currently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that nearly 200,000 software developer, quality assurance analyst, and software tester jobs will be created in the U.S. between 2020 and 2030. This will grow the number of such jobs by 22% over the decade, which is much faster than the average…
Software development that is intuitive, similar to human communication styles, and that is concise is far easier than software development that is closer to the hardware. Throughout programming history, there has been an ongoing trend to increasingly encapsulate the computer hardware from the human programmer.
Assembly language, a very direct…
Online hate is a rampant problem on social media. Not only can it create a toxic environment of discriminatory harassment, but it can also incite real-world violence and hate crimes. With the ease of creating an anonymous account, a large number of haters, and the challenge of tracking all the…
On Medium, a select few articles are chosen by the editors to be shown to more people. This is called being curated, or being recommended. I have been writing for Medium for about a year and a half, and I had to work my way up and learn the techniques…
